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15 years ago

Question about AltLVDS megafunction and BLVDS

Now I could use AltLVDS megafunction to impletement the 2 device T/R,but if I connect more than 2 cyclone III,could this IP support Bus LVDS?

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    The send/reveive control and BLVDS output enable has to managed in your application. The soft LVDS core should be able to interface BLVD I/O standard, I'm not sure about the didicated hardware SERDES blocks of Stratix and Arria. Simply set up a test design.

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    Thank you for your fast response,FvM:-) So I need both TX and RX block for every node.In the other words the ALTLVDS is an SERDES and Physical IO core,right? I notice that this core must have the CLK input,is it possible to provide the clk by each node seprately or I should have a APP to recover the CLK?

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    The problem of needing a clock with synchronous data transmission hasn't particularly to do with BLVDS. A common clock must be provided in any case. Cyclone III doesn't have a clock recovery option, however. For lower speeds up to several 10 MBit/s, an UART protocol can be a solution.